(1901-1963) anthropologist & novelist; President of the Association on American Indian Affairs, 1933-1941 & 1947-1951; has novels Laughing Boy(1929; W-1930 Pulitzer), Sparks Fly Upward(1931), The Enemy Gods(1937, 1975), The Eagle in the Egg(1949, 1972)

(1914- ) sf fan, film projectionist, writer; pub. fanzine Le Zombie for 68 issues, 1938-1978; wrote three articles for The Fantasy Fan, in 1933-35, under the ps. Hoy Ping Pong; 1st story pub. "Interstellar Way Station" in SSN 1941 MAY

(1660-1731) 1st pub. in, an excerpt from The Friendly Demon(1726), & is the chapter titled "The Devil Frolics with a Butler"; U.K. merchant, spy & writer, author of Robinson Crusoe(1719); has novel The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies(1740)

(1914- ) 1st pub. in ESQ 1947 JAN; mathematician, conjurer, journalist & author; has BA in philosophy from the Univ. of Chicago; has book on science, The Ambidextrous Universe(1964; exp. 1979; rev. 1982); has book The Annotated Alice(1960)

(1809-1892) appointed Poet Laureate of England in 1850; 1st book Poems, by Two Brothers(1827); poem "The Lady of Shalott"(1832); epic poems, Idylls of the King(1859; 1869; 1871; 1872; 1885); see website http://65.107.211.206/tennyson/tennyov.html

(1889-1958) 1st pub. in SND 1931 NOV, 1st & only story in F&SF from her Solange Fontaine detective ser., coll. in The Solange Stories(1931), about a woman detective with psychic powers; wrote mys. novels & stories; edited the Notable British Trials Series

4th story Gavagan's Bar series; Pratt conceived the idea of the Harold Shea series of humorous fantasies in which the protagonist, Shea, is transported into a series of alternate worlds based on various myths & legends(Clute)

has 1st two novels, crime novels Someone Is Bleeding(1953) & Fury on Sunday(1953); has 1st two sf novels, I Am Legend(1954) & The Shrinking Man(1956); more on 3 of these as Matheson wrote the movie scripts for them

(1935- ) his 1st pub. story; has 1st novel Make It Happen to Me(?), based on his United Nations time in Africa in 1960, as was A Dove Against Death(1983); wrote James Bond screenplays & novelizations of The Spy Who Loved Me(1977), Moonraker(1979)

(1879-1953) 1st pub. in London in his coll. The Other End(1923); wn. for Richard Ellis Roberts; 1st book Poems(1906); nf books Samuel Rogers and His Circle(1910), Henrik Ibsen(1912), (tr)Ernst Toller: Look Through the Bars, Portrait of Stella Benson(1939)

best books of 1950; C. Adams: Monster Rally; Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles; Cadell: Brimstone in the Garden; Davenport: Ghostly Tales to Be Told; Derleth(ed): Beyond Time & Space; Greenberg(ed): Men Against the Stars

(1903-1969) working name for John Wyndham Beynon Harris, U.K. writer; 1st story pub. sf "Worlds to Barter" in WOS 1931 MAY(as by John Beynon Harris); early stories colls. Wanderers of Time(1973) as John Wyndham, & Exiles on Asperus(1979) as John Beynon

(1928-1993) wn. for Symmes Chadwick Oliver; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but lived much of his life in Texas; has 1952 MA, English & Anthropology, from the Univ. of Texas; his 1st sale, but not his 1st pub. story("The Land of Lost Content" in SSS 1950 NOV)

Story Title Contest, $100.00 given to reader with best title for this story; winner announced on p.23, 1951 OCT("Hell-Bent" won); has ss "Skin Deep" in ASF 1950 JUL; nv's "March Hare Mission" in Worlds Beyond 1951 JAN, "Phantom Duel" in INF 1955 NOV

(1915-1958; 1911-1987) ps. for Henry Kuttner & C(atherine) L(ucille) Moore collaboration; also in F&SF under K. & M.; also have collab. ps. Lewis Padgett & Lawrence O'Donnell; they were married in 1940; have colls. A Gnome There Was(1950), Mutant(1953)